Education Law Center (ELC) is justifiably proud of what it describes as its “decades-long history…to promote fair and equitable school funding and effective school reform.”
Last week the Brookings Institute issued the Education Choice and Competition Index, which ranks 100 school districts on the “ease with which parents can exercise
In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman opines that the current GOP presidential contenders represent the “time loop party” who preen on debate podia and spout
N.J. PARCC analyses continue to trickle in. The Star-Ledger reports that Millburn and Livingston (both on the list of rich white districts with high opt-out
Today’s NJ Spotlight crunches the opt-out PARCC data released recently by the N.J. Department of Education. Anti-testers are irate because the D.O.E. didn’t break down
Tenicka Boyd, senior director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY and the mother of a student at PS 321 in Brooklyn, describes the academic life of three
The Record reports today that “PARCC refusals were highest in some of the more affluent and high-achieving districts in Bergen County.” No problem, as long
In a school district in Suffolk County, N.Y., a revolution against standards and assessments is underway. However, this is not your typical vignette of white
“New Jersey’s new standardized tests might not be popular, but they do produce more honest results than the prior exam, according to a new study
From the Albany Times-Union: New York teachers are suing the state over new regulations that allow superintendents to impose improvement plans on underperforming teachers without